On 4/10/2012 9:26 AM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>>>>> Ideally, the management of the tenant id should be transparent to the
>>>>> application, although we should revisit this in Java EE 8 as we move
>>>>> further into support for SaaS.
>>>>
>>>> For the application to not have to manage tenant ids, I guess the
>>>> tenant identifier
>>>> would need to be available to the provider on a per-invocation basis
>>>> (in a thread
>>>> context set by the container)? As you mention, not something that we
>>>> necessarily have to worry about now, but just so we know what we will
>>>> need
>>>> in the future if this is what we want.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Right. For shared application instances we will need this.
>>
>> You had said this would be available via ENC/JNDI before I think?
>
> Will the tenant identifier be available in ENC/JNDI regardless of strategy being used?
>
Yes
>
>>>>> I believe that the main use case for the shared table approach is in
>>>>> SaaS environments in which a single application instance is servicing
>>>>> multiple tenants. This is outside the scope of Java EE 7, so I don't
>>>>> think that we need to standardize on support for this approach now,
>>>>> although we should not lose sight of it as we standardize on other
>>>>> aspects.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, there is some value in this being available today, though, given
>>>> that
>>>> some people are doing multitenancy in their own environment, outside the
>>>> cloud. I guess it just depends how far we want to go to enable SaaS in
>>>> JPA
>>>> in this round.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Right. This would be "application-managed SaaS" in my terminology :-)
>>> I'm not opposed to considering it in this release, although it depends on
>>> time constraints. But it might be advantageous to get more vendor
>>> experience
>>> first before we standardize.
>>
>> I would at least like to see the annotation for naming the "tenant
>> discriminator" column standardized. I think that's the most crucial
>> piece from app developer perspective.
>
> Will we at least have a standardized annotation for mapping the "tenant identifier" column?
Certainly when we standardize on this approach. I'm not seeing why it is essential
in purely application-managed SaaS however. Is it? If so, why?